How to make the best butterscotch chips

Butterscotch chips are an excellent alternative to chocolate chips in many recipes. These tasty morsels may not be as accessible as chocolate chips so here is a way to get the sweet taste of butterscotch in your cookies, cakes, etc. without having to search every store for the butterscotch chips.Making your own butterscotch chips is easy and economical.

Skill level:

Easy

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Things you need

Sauce pan

Wooden spoon

4 tbsp unsalted butter

200 g (1 cup) of tightly packed dark brown sugar

178 ml (3/4 cup) heavy whipping cream

1 tbsp vanilla extract

1 tsp sea salt

227 g (8 oz) tempered unsweetened white chocolate

Waxed paper

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Instructions

1

Prepare all of the ingredients and let sit to room temperature.

2

Melt the unsalted butter over low heat in a sauce pan and then stir in the dark brown sugar .

3

Stir until the mixture is creamy then add vanilla extract and sea salt.

4

Slowly add heavy whipping cream while continuing to mix the other ingredients.

5

Pour butterscotch sauce over tempered unsweetened white chocolate and heat until they are blended and melted completely.

6

Drop the warm butterscotch/white chocolate mixture onto waxed paper is small droplets to make the chips.

7

Chill the butterscotch chips and store them in an air tight container.

8

Add the homemade butterscotch chips to cookies, drop them into cake batter or use them as a topping on an icecream sundae.

Tips and warnings

Make sure the unsweetened chocolate is completely blended with the butterscotch sauce so that the butterscotch flavour comes through.

Use unsweetened white chocolate only or you might alter the butterscotch flavour and the chips will not have the authentic butterscotch taste.